ասփուր

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Middle Armenian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Arabic عُصْفُر (ʕuṣfur). The forms with an մ- (m-) are from the related مُعَصْفَر (muʕaṣfar, safflower).

Ačaṙyan records the given names Մասպուռ (Maspuṙ) [1628] and Մասփուր (Maspʻur) [1629] as alternative forms of Մասուր (Masur, literally rosehip),[1] but they are rather derived from this safflower word.

Noun

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ասփուր (aspʻur)

  1. safflower, Carthamus tinctorius
    Synonym: ղրտում (ġrtum)
    • 6th–12th? centuries, Baṙkʻ Gałianosi [The Greek–Armenian Dictionary to Galen] :[2]
      Կրտոմ (vars. կրտում, կտրոմ) = մասփարի (vars. մարփարի, մասփրի, կասփարի) հունդ ։
      Krtom (vars. krtum, ktrom) = maspʻari (vars. marpʻari, maspʻri, kaspʻari) hund .
      قُرْطُم (qurṭum) = seed of safflower
    • 9th or 10th century, with changes and additions in later centuries, Tʻargmanutʻiwn dełocʻ zor əntrel en imastasērkʻn ew kargeal yayl lezuacʻ [A Medieval Arabic–Armenian Botanical Dictionary] :[3]
      Ալոփալջիլ (var. ալոփալջրիկ) = մասփուրի հունդ։
      Alopʻalǰil (var. alopʻalǰrik) = maspʻuri hund.
      الْعُصْفُر (al-ʕuṣfur) = seed of safflower

References

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  1. ^ Ačaṙyan, Hračʻya (1946) “ասփուր”, in Hayocʻ anjnanunneri baṙaran (Erewani petakan hamalsaran. Gitakan ašxatutʻyunner; 25) (in Armenian), volume III, Yerevan: University Press, page 217
  2. ^ Greppin, John A. C. (1985) Baṙkʿ Gaɫianosi: The Greek–Armenian Dictionary to Galen[1], Delmar, New York: Caravan Books, page 132
  3. ^ Greppin, John A. C. (1997) A Medieval Arabic–Armenian Botanical Dictionary (Studien zur armenischen Geschichte; 16), a separate print of Greppin 1995, Vienna: Mekhitarist Press, § 9, page 21

Further reading

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